increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition … fully domestic supply chains, the increasing competition promotes a sequential disintegration of the domestic intermediate …

acquisition. We find that with quantity competition a spillover makes acquisitions less attractive, while with price competition …

In this paper we investigate tax/subsidy competition for FDI between countries of different size when a domestic firm … policy competition between the two governments seeking to attract FDI. We show that the country hosting the incumbent always … welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …